Pre Season Friendlies 2026/27

[Master Bates]

Any idea who we've got, anyone we want?

[saintant]

25 minutes ago, Master Bates said:

Any idea who we've got, anyone we want?

Boro at St Marys would be good.

[chiknsmack]

I think we'll have to stick with the other teams in the EFL naughty corner. Swindon Town, Shrewsbury Town, Leicester, Wednesday, West Brom.

Maybe a trip to Turkey to play Goztepe, and while we're there we can play Adana Demirspor who just got relegated to the third tier on -57 points.

[Mattio]

Football Martin mentioned that we're doing a training camp in Barcelona - I assume not playing vs them but maybe Espanyol and some lower league Spanish teams or other teams training nearby.

[trousers]

14 minutes ago, Mattio said:

Football Martin mentioned that we're doing a training camp in Barcelona - I assume not playing vs them but maybe Espanyol and some lower league Spanish teams or other teams training nearby.

So, reading between the lines... Pochettino is coming back as manager after the world cup...?

[Football Special]

7 hours ago, Mattio said:

Football Martin mentioned that we're doing a training camp in Barcelona - I assume not playing vs them but maybe Espanyol and some lower league Spanish teams or other teams training nearby.

Quite a big difference to start of the season (EFL starts with a league cup game 8th Aug) whereas Premier League starts two weeks later on 22nd , would have made it hard to plan too much in advance. 

I miss the days of our Scandinavian pre season tours, had some great trips to Sweden and Norway, would be nice to play there again. 

Assume training will begin first week of July 

[RedArmy]

7 hours ago, trousers said:

So, reading between the lines... Pochettino is coming back as manager after the world cup...?

The same Pochettino that was mentored by the OG spy Marcelo Bielsa? 
 

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[trousers]

4 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

The same Pochettino that was mentored by the OG spy Marcelo Bielsa? 
 

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Ha... Full circle! It's written in the stars...